Number 8 Zak Rodda
In 2019, a woman and her daughter were left homeless after her “psycho” ex burned down
their home in Redruth, Cornwall, England. Charlene Clarke and Zak Rodda, both in their early 30s,
had a child together during a relationship which had lasted roughly 15 years. In March,
Rodda left Clarke for another woman. It was an unexpected move which Clarke claimed
had left her “heartbroken”. Only a few weeks had passed before Rodda tried getting
back together with Clarke, but she stood her ground and refused to accept reconciliation.
Rodda, however, wouldn’t leave the family home pointing to his name also being on the mortgage.
One night, Rodda and Clarke attended a family memorial at a friend’s house. Rodda got
intoxicated and asked that Clarke return home with him, which she declined to do. Enraged, he got
back to their house and set fire to a mattress. He then sent Clarke a series of threatening messages,
one of which read “Look, see the light, I warned you”. Rodda went to a pub where he told other
patrons that he’d started a fire which grew out of control. Not only had the blaze ravaged Clarke’s
home but it also expanded to three other terraced houses, prompting their occupants
to flee for their lives. A disabled woman in one of the burning homes was only rescued because her
caregiver was at the address at the time. In the aftermath, the insurance company refused Clarke a
payout because Rodda was the policy holder. Even though the fire had gutted the homes,
no one was seriously hurt and Rodda was sentenced to six years in prison.
Number 7 Berlinah Wallace In the early hours of September the 23rd of 2015,
Mark van Dongen awoke at his ex-girlfriend’s Bristol apartment to the sound of her laughing
and saying “If I can’t have you, no one else can”. Within moments, Van Dongen experienced
excruciating pain as sulphuric acid was thrown on his face and body. He ran into the street,
screaming in agony and alerting neighbors who called the authorities. 29-year-old
Van Dongen’s injuries were so severe that roughly ten months had passed before he was able to speak
about what had happened and give his account of the attack. The Dutch-born victim told the police
that he’d ended his five-year relationship with Berlinah Wallace, originally from South Africa
and nearly 20 years his senior. Van Dongen had started seeing another woman but agreed to spend
the night of September the 22nd at Wallace’s home, as he’d felt sorry for her but also
because she still had his passport. In an act described as “pure evil”, at around 3 am,
Wallace dumped a glass of sulphuric acid on his face and body, while he was in his boxers and had
no form of protection. The impact was devastating, with a degree of disfigurement so severe that
officials didn’t release the photos of Van Dongen’s face but only those of the bed sheets,
blackened by the corrosive fluid. Upon arriving at the hospital and seeing the extent of the damage,
he reportedly began to scream and beg “Kill me now”. He spent four months in an induced coma
and was left paralyzed from the neck down. Van Dongen lost an ear, the sight in his left eye and
most of that in his right while his lower left leg had to be amputated. On January the 2nd of 2017,
Van Dongen ended his life by euthanasia at a clinic in Belgium. Wallace tried to place
the blame on the victim, claiming that he’d put the glass of acid on her bedside table,
intending for her to unwittingly drink it. Her story didn’t hold up in court, as there was
insurmountable evidence pointing to her, including dozens of websites in which she’d researched the
acid’s effects. She was sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum of 12 years served.
Number 6 Karina Vanessa Corbalan In March of 2020, a Florida Instagram model was
arrested for fatally shooting her ex-boyfriend, outside his Hialeah home. 23-year-old Karina
Vanessa Corbalan and Alejandro Sanchez, aged 28, had had a troubled relationship and,
according to neighbors, were no longer together at the time of the shooting. Corbalan’s popular
Instagram page showed the blonde influencer posing in the foreground of several exotic locations,
but featured no photos of Sanchez. An argument, the nature of which remains uncertain, erupted
between them and culminated with Corbalan shooting at Sanchez 15 times. Five of the bullets struck
him in the chest. The victim’s mother was at the scene and she was heard screaming at Corbalan
that she’d killed her son. Corbalan, in turn, presumably not realizing the damage she’d done,
was reported to have called out to her ex “Wake up, wake up, Alex.” Officers arrived to the
scene and found her kneeling over his body as well as a black Mercedes, the windshield
of which was riddled with bullets. Sanchez was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital,
where he was pronounced dead. Corbalan made her first court appearance in a vest designed to deter
self-harm and was ordered to be held without bail. Number 5 Stephen Booth
In May of 2021, a builder from Manchester, England, murdered his ex-wife with an axe
then called the police to come and arrest him. Stephen and Susan Booth, both in their 60s,
had separated three years prior. Up to that point, they’d shared a home in Shaw, near Oldham, which
Stephen had had a significant role in building. The divorce proceedings were being finalized and
the marital home was proposed for sale at over $620,000. Susan had asked for half of the money,
which enraged Stephen as he felt that she didn’t deserve it. Stephen, who hadn’t talked directly
to his ex for two years, was out walking his dog when a solicitor told him that the sale would be
completed in three days’ time. It was at that point that he started plotting Susan’s murder.
On May the 4th, he lay in wait at the home until she returned from a shift at the Royal
Oldham Hospital. He struck her from behind with an axe and then continued his gruesome attack,
ultimately inflicting 19 axe strikes, most of them to the head. Susan sustained devastating injuries
and was pronounced dead shortly after being rushed to the hospital where she worked. Stephen called
the police and told the operator that he’d just killed his wife and that officers should be sent
to his home address to arrest him. He pled guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison
with a minimum of 22-and-a-half years served, meaning that he was likely to die behind bars.
Number 4 Samantha Mears
In 2019, a woman was sentenced to 20 years in a mental health facility for a 2018 incident
in which she’d forced her ex-boyfriend to have intercourse with her while threatening him with a
machete. Montana woman Samantha Mears broke into her ex-boyfriend’s home, while he was out at a
gas station. When the unnamed victim entered the bedroom, she approached him from behind,
pressed the blade to his throat, then ordered him to remove his clothes and get on the bed.
She then climbed on top of him and they had intercourse with Mears reportedly biting the
victim’s arm in the process. The man would later tell the authorities he’d felt forced
to comply with his ex’s demands for fear of being killed. After the deed was done,
Mears reportedly swung the machete around and deliberately urinated on the bed. The victim was
able to escape out the back door as his sister arrived home. When interviewed by the police,
Mears claimed that their relations hadn’t been abusive, but reportedly became incoherent in her
answers. She was charged with intercourse without consent as well as aggravated burglary, assault
with a weapon, and unlawful restraint, before eventually being deemed unfit to stand trial.
Number 3 Patresha Isidore & Junior Francis In June of 2018, a woman was seen driving down
a Florida highway, at around 70 mph, with her ex-boyfriend clinging to the hood of her car.
24-year-old Patresha Isidore and Junior Francis had broken up about eight months prior but were
still living together. Isidore was getting ready to drive and pick up their daughter. Francis, who
didn’t want her to go because he also needed the car, launched his body onto the vehicle’s hood.
As Isidore would later tell officers, she didn’t want “to deal with any foolishness” so she just
kept driving. The video of him holding on for his life on the highway, initially shared on Twitter,
subsequently became viral. While clinging to the hood with one hand, Francis used the other to
call the authorities, convinced he was going to die. He survived the hellish ride largely
unharmed while Isidore was charged with culpable negligence, a misdemeanor, and was bonded out.
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Number 2 Bonita Vivien Coue In June of 2021, Bonita Vivien Coue
was arrested for the “premeditated and brutal” killing of her ex-husband, Kerry Michael Rooney,
at his Newmarket home, in Brisbane, Australia. A witness had filmed the moment that neighbors
rushed to help 51-year-old Rooney as he was lying in a pool of his own blood, in the middle of the
street. Coue, aged 53, had been monitoring Rooney’s habits in the weeks leading up to
the horrific attack. She went to his apartment, armed with two knives, a bottle of bleach and the
toy replica of a gun. She waited in the staircase of his building and ambushed the father-of-one
when he returned home. Coue sprayed him in the face with the bleach and, as he turned around,
stabbed him in the back and slit his throat. She continued to slash and stab Rooney as he
ran down the street, screaming for help. One of the knives was reportedly still lodged in his body
when the police arrived at the scene. Coue used the toy gun to deter bystanders from intervening,
including a neighbor who’d sought to confront her with a baseball bat. Following her arrest,
she’d allegedly told officers that she didn’t want to pay child support anymore. Her trial is ongoing
but Coue refused legal representation claiming she couldn’t afford it, even after being told that it
could be provided at no charge. She tried to claim self-defense, but detectives assigned to her case
reported that there was no evidence of it. Number 1 Joseph Oberhansley
In December of 1998, in a meth-fueled jealous rage, Utah man Joseph Oberhansley
gunned down his teenage girlfriend. He proceeded to shoot his mother, who survived, and then fired
at his sister, but missed. In a bid to end his life, Oberhansley tucked the gun under his chin
and pulled the trigger. He didn’t die with the bullet instead becoming lodged in his head,
effectively giving him a partial lobotomy. The part of his brain that was affected by the gunshot
controls emotions, personality, decision making and self-control. He ultimately pled guilty to
manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Oberhansley would later tell a parole
board that he regretted killing his girlfriend and that having a bullet in his frontal lobe
had made him calmer. However, according to his family members, it turned him into a “monster”
and they noted increasingly obsessive behavior. Even though some of his relatives insisted that
Oberhansley remain locked up, he was paroled in 2012 and transferred to Indiana. In 2014,
he started dating 46-year-old Tammy Jo Blanton, who was 13 years his senior.
Oberhansley was vague about his past but Blanton eventually learned the truth which,
in the context of his controlling behavior, caused her to fear him. She ended their relationship and
asked her father to change the locks of her home. In the early hours of September the 11th of 2014,
Blanton called the police claiming that her ex-boyfriend was trying to break into her house.
Officers arrived at the address and confronted Oberhansley, who agreed to leave. Later in the
day, the police went to check on Blanton again, after she hadn’t shown up for work. There were
signs of forced entry at her home and Oberhansley answered the door, claiming she wasn’t home.
Officers searched him and found a knife in his pocket, covered in blood and hair. In the bathtub,
they discovered Blanton’s mutilated body, under a camping tent. She’d been beaten, stabbed and
cut open with an electric saw. Parts of her lungs, heart and brain had been extracted and cooked in
a skillet. Oberhansley admitted to officers at the scene that he’d killed and eaten part of his
ex, but subsequently changed his story, claiming he was being framed by two intruders. He made a
series of bizarre statements which included him being able to hear Blanton’s thoughts
and complained of a tingling in his head, telling interviewing officers "I'm like electrifying right
now". Oberhansley was ultimately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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